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...school question enters politics, it will most probably be in the shape of a proposal to divide the fund collected for public instruction so as to support parochial schools. To grant a part of the public money to one denomination would entitle all denominations to a share. And sects like the Episcopal church, which talks of building schools of its own, would accept this. But the plan would be greatly to the detriment of the common school system...
...work for this body to do, and there is no better time for such work than the coming week. Before the next meeting of the Conference is called, the drafting or framing committee should be selected, so that subjects may be referred to it, and cast into proper shape for discussion. These subjects should then be sent to the different members of the Conference, so that each one may be able to have an independent view on what is to be brought up for discussion. With these preliminaries we feel sure that the meetings may be of increasing benefit...
...note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly for the first effect of the concentration of mind in taking notes is to make...
...printed works of an author, familiarity with which often blunts our perception in their most important parts, in reviews for examination. The attention is more painful than pleasant in this kind of "grinding," - while our notes are not only reminders, as remarked above, but statements put in the best shape for our individual minds. For these reasons "printed notes," etc. never give the same results as those of the student himself, and are to be reprehended inasmuch as they offer a loop-hole for the man who is too lazy to take his own notes...
...holds the opposite. Everyone grants that an optimist who writes pessimistically should be condemned for insincerity. But few seem to realize that if a man's most sober and honest thought is pessimistic, as it often is, he would do wrong to write optimistically. Both argue that you must shape your course according to the weightiest facts of existence; one holds that misery is the great fact of life; the other, that happiness is. Each is in duty bound steadfastly to set forth his side, if he thinks that thereby men will do better. To blame a writer because...